Views:8132|Rating:4.61|View Time:1:55Minutes|Likes:35|Dislikes:3Lobelia cardinalis, sometimes known as ‘Cardinal Flower’, is a native of the eastern and central United States where it can be found growing in moist soils along streams, ponds, and ditches. In its emersed state, it produces green leaves with purplish undersides and bears attractive scarlet, bell-shaped flowers which make it highly popular among terrestrial gardeners. Submersed growth, in contrast, is bright green. Long popularized by the Dutch, L. cardinalis is a fairly common plant in the trade.

Views:7975|Rating:4.46|View Time:4:Minutes|Likes:25|Dislikes:3Jostens printing plants are special. From our passionate employees to our top-notch quality to our Green initiatives, our plants are like nowhere else. This video takes you on a tour.

Views:15113|Rating:4.62|View Time:1:4Minutes|Likes:73|Dislikes:6This is a plant I’ve been growing for about three months now.

Mimosa pudica – (from Latin: pudica “shy, bashful or shrinking”; also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant, Dormilones, touch-me-not, or shy plant) is a creeping annual or perennial herb of the pea family Fabaceae often grown for its curiosity value: the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken, defending themselves from harm, and re-open a few minutes later. The species is native to South America and Central America, but is now a pantropical weed. It can also be found in Asia in countries such as Bangladesh, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Japan. It grows mostly in undisturbed shady areas, under trees or shrubs

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Views:15367|Rating:4.43|View Time:49:59Minutes|Likes:62|Dislikes:8In the latest installment of City Jobs, New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell works at the Wasterwater Treatment Plant located in Fort Taber in the city’s South End.

Views:16180|Rating:4.58|View Time:9:38Minutes|Likes:97|Dislikes:9Volkswagen, in partnership with authorised seller CFAO, and the Rwandan government marked history today, opening the first car assembly plant in Rwanda, with a capacity to produce up to 5,000 cars. With the lower range models such as the Polo approximated to have a starting price of up to $23,000, the service expected from this investment extends to far more than car sales.

Views:64504|Rating:4.61|View Time:4:37Minutes|Likes:327|Dislikes:28Danish firms Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects have won a competition to design the world’s largest waste-to-energy power plant in China.

Proposed for the mountainous region on the outskirts of Shenzhen, the waste-to-energy plant is expected to incinerate 5,000 tonnes of rubbish per day – approximately one third of the waste generated by the city’s 20 million inhabitants each year.

According to the architects, the facility will “utilise the most advanced technology in waste incineration and power generation”.

The huge circular building will boast a 66,000-square-metre roof, two thirds of which will be covered with photovoltaic panels, allowing the building to generate its own sustainable supply of energy.

It will also feature a series of visitor facilities, including a looping walkway that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the plant, before leading up to a rooftop viewing platform.

“At the same time it aims to educate visitors to this growing waste challenge by taking them on an elevated walkway tour of the plant that ends with a 1.5-kilometre panoramic view of both the surrounding mountains and the 66,000-square-metre roofscape that will be geared to producing actual renewable energy,” he told Dezeen.

The circular structure will encompass the entire plant, including auxiliary buildings – the aim was to keep the facility as compact as possible.

The entrance will be a snaking ramp that starts from a landscaped park and winds up between a pair of smokestacks.

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Views:26003|Rating:4.91|View Time:4:32Minutes|Likes:558|Dislikes:10In 1916, MIT built an on-site steam and electrical power plant to serve its new campus. A state-of-the-art facility for that era, the plant represented MIT’s commitment to cleaner, more efficient generation of energy. A century later, MIT continues to pursue an energy strategy that supports human health and sustainability. (Learn more:

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If you’re considering bamboo for your landscape, it’s vital that you take some time to study proper installation and containment techniques (e.g., what to use for a rhizome barrier, how often to prune the rhizomes, how to create a hedge, etc.). Everything I learned in this video came from Bamboo Garden. Don’t fear bamboo! Embrace it. Learn how to control it and you too can enjoy the beauty and mystique of a bamboo grove.

Views:222314|Rating:4.77|View Time:1:22Minutes|Likes:977|Dislikes:48In an interesting natural phenomenon where a plant moves by itself, the leaves of the prayer plant gradually rise and fall during hours of minimal light, as if it were “praying.” Shot within a span of eight hours from 4 p.m. to midnight at a rate of one frame per minute. Special thanks to Aaron Koenig at Dartmouth College for providing the plant.

Views:2108543|Rating:4.88|View Time:7:47Minutes|Likes:26614|Dislikes:638Ginger is an very important and interesting spice that you can grow in your garden. In today’s video on giner growing, we will see two techniques how to grow ginger and how growing ginger root can be very productive for your garden.

The Ginger plant is a perennial but is mostly grown as an annual. We look at some tips to grow ginger, can you grow ginger in containers.

Ginger can be planted in May and then it needs about 4 to 6 months to grow to about 4-5 feet in height after which you can harvest the ginger. In this video we also look at how a premature harvest of ginger looks like and ways you can avoid it. We also present to you the best tips for growing ginger.

Ginger root is easy to grow at home. Growing fresh ginger is probably the best thing you can do in your home garden. Although you can grow ginger indoors in bright light, I recommend you growing ginger outdoors in bright light. Since there are a lot of tips on how to grow ginger, we present a concise but efficient way of how to grow ginger root in your garden.

Views:1370723|Rating:4.04|View Time:42:57Minutes|Likes:3994|Dislikes:949The Largest Power Plant Of The World – Geographic History.

The world’s first power station was designed and built by Lord Armstrong at Cragside, England in 1868. Water from one of the lakes was used to power Siemens dynamos. The electricity supplied power to lights, heating, produced hot water, ran an elevator as well as labor-saving devices and farm buildings.

The first public power station was the Edison Electric Light Station, built in London at 57, Holborn Viaduct, which started operation in January 1882. This was a project of Thomas Edison that was organized and managed by his partner, Edward Johnson. A Babcock and Wilcox boiler powered a 125-horsepower steam engine that drove a 27-ton generator called “Jumbo”, after the celebrated elephant. This supplied electricity to premises in the area that could be reached through the culverts of the viaduct without digging up the road, which was the monopoly of the gas companies. The customers included the City Temple and the Old Bailey. Another important customer was the Telegraph Office of the General Post Office, but this could not be reached though the culverts. Johnson arranged for the supply cable to be run overhead, via Holborn Tavern and Newgate.